Posts Categorized: State of HUGE

[ you always hope – you never know ] Beginning on Wednesday November 15th and running until just after midnight Thursday, November 16th – a 28 hour block of time lovingly known IMPROVATHON – HUGE Theater held our annual improv marathon to raise money on Give To The Max Day 2017. This is a crucial… Read more »

Sorry for the delay – you may have heard that things got a little crazy this fall! There have been updates in some of these areas – especially programming for 2018 – but for the sake of clarity (and getting it posted) the information here is what was presented in August. HUGE Happy Hour Meeting… Read more »

STEP THREE: Feedback at our Community Forum affirmed that HUGE is needed and that our community is unequivocal in rejecting white supremacy. To that end, we held an emergency board meeting on Wednesday, September 13, and resolved the following: We are committed that HUGE must stay open and continue to serve our community. We’re committed… Read more »

Improvisers at HUGE Improv Theater are taking the stage — and not giving it back for 28 hours — to raise money for the the non-profit artist-led improvisational theater. It’s a one-of-a-kind fundraising barnstorm that coincides with Give to the Max Day, November 16, an annual event when Minnesotans display their generosity by celebrating and donating… Read more »

Thank you for your patience – we decided against a verbatim transcript due to some privacy concerns but have put together a full summary of the meeting and discussion. STEP TWO: Community Forum Wednesday, September 6, 2017, 5-7pm at HUGE Theater This forum was for the community to come and say what’s on their minds,… Read more »

Thanks to everyone that attended our community forum Here’s what we know so far: – Our community is amazing. – Our mission and commitment to our community guide us. Next steps: The full HUGE board is meeting next week. We’ll have notes from Wednesday’s Step Two: A Community Forum up as soon as we can,… Read more »

Step ONE: Our official statement As everyone else learned the news, we at HUGE Theater were made aware that our landlord made a $500 donation to David Duke in 2016. HUGE is a nonprofit theater dedicated to building a healthy and diverse improv community. We are in year 3 of a 10-year lease on our… Read more »

At the end of January we celebrated six years of our strange little theater – per tradition, we had brief updates, news and goals covering the past year and the year ahead and a lot of thanks. Link to the video included at the end of this post. This is a more complete version of… Read more »

[ The Money In Your Pocket May Not Get You Through The Day] Beginning in the evening hours of November 16th and running until just after midnight the morning of Friday, November 18th – HUGE Theater held our annual 28 hour improv marathon (or Improvathon) to raise money on Give To The Max Day 2016…. Read more »

This has taken an abnormally long time to pull together and the longer it’s taken, the more things we have to include in it – and there’s always something else we can include if we just wait a couple more days around this place. Things happen at a pretty crazy pace around here, it can… Read more »